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The OPEC and the select group of 11 non-OPEC producers announced an agreement today to extend existing production cuts through the first quarter of 2018. OPEC agreed to cut oil production by about 1.8 million barrels per day in December for the first half of 2017. Led by Russian Federation, non-OPEC producers had initially curbed output in conjunction with OPEC in a landmark deal for the first half of the year from January.

At around 11.00 a.m. London time, Brent was trading 0.3 percent lower at $53.65 a barrel with the U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) benchmark edging down by almost the same amount to sit at $50.96 a barrel. It has been closed for all but a few weeks since a militant attack in early 2016. Chief market strategist of AxiTrader, Greg McKenna noted that " OPEC agreeing to nine months without deeper cuts leaves prices at the mercy of inventories and US production and demand ", Investors are ...

The Post was first alerted in mid-December to the meeting by an anonymous letter, which said, among other things, that Kushner had talked to Kislyak about setting up the communications channel. Jared Kushner and Russian Federation discussed a secret and secure communications channel, according to a new report. It is unclear whether they learned about it from intercepted Russian communications or by other means.

Finally, Bank of America Corp upgraded Scorpio Tankers from an underperform rating to a buy rating and set a $6.00 price objective on the stock in a report on Friday, May 12th. The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, June 14th. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, May 9th.

Additionally on 3/23/17 Stifel Nicolaus "Initiates Coverage On" Chesapeake Energy Corp (NYSE: CHK ) to Buy setting price target at $0 and on 2/24/17 UBS "Upgrades" the stock to Neutral at $0. The stock closed the most recent session at $5.29 after seeing 28706210 shares trade hands. The acquisition was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website .